Every indication is the Rams will be significantly better on offense. For starters, Jaylon Borel is the only starting quarterback returning among the top five teams. That experience at QB, another huge and talented offensive line — anchored by 300-pounders Damien Handy and D’Quanis Robertson — and a large stable of halfbacks should make life difficult for opposing defenses all season.

On the defensive end, however, the Rams have plenty of work to do.

Barbe, on the other hand, lost its top receiver, top rusher and starting quarterback from a year ago. Like Acadiana, I know some of you are rolling your eyes after taking the violin off your shoulder and thinking “Yeah right, it’s Barbe.”
Point well taken.

It’s a similar story with the Golden Tors’ offense, which lost all-time leading rusher J’Cobi Skinner and passer Byron Walker.

The truth is that there will be new faces all over the fields in 3-5A games this season. Of the 29 first-team All-District players from a year ago, only six weren’t seniors. And one of those juniors was the Sulphur punter.

Of the five other junior regulars returning, three are from Sulphur — TE Christian Trahan, LB Michael Dufresne and FS Connor Cooke — and two from Acadiana — Handy and RB Ziggy Francis.

So many new faces, but over the next two months, we’ll find out if that actually changes anything at the top of District 3-5A.